With the results of the Sept. 5 primary in, it proves that good guys do and can finish first. I'm talking about Ted Deutch, who ran a calm, clean and rational campaign against his opponent, who flashed millions of dollars around, but will now have to go back to his original trade. All the tea in China, free meals, movies, etc., did not buy him the election. Congratulations to Ted Deutch and all the voters who made the right choice.

State Rep. Irv Slosberg should be ashamed of having supported the Republican plan that gave more power to the far right-wing Legislature. His votes are meaningless because there are so few Democrats, a situation that he helped to create. Enough is enough. Ted Deutch is a good Democrat who will be a good Democratic leader. We deserve him.

This is an answer to a question posed in a letter by a resident of Whisper Walk or Century Village asking, where was Ted Deutch during the hurricane seasons. Ted Deutch is a private citizen, not an elected official. So the work Ted did, the distribution of food and water, during the hurricane emergency was done as a citizen volunteer at communities where his volunteer services were needed. I am sure if he were the elected representative for the above-mentioned communities, he would have been there instead.

Ben Graber, the losing candidate in the 19th Congressional District primary, just called winner Ted Deutch. "That was Dr. Graber," Deutch told the remaining core of volunteers at his primary night party west of Boca Raton. "We have our first endorsement" for the April 13 general election.

At last week's debate between state Rep. Irv Slosberg and Ted Deutch, I witnessed the most disgraceful, pathetic and embarrassing performance by an elected official I've ever seen. Even worse, for the gift of a bus ride and a free Chinese dinner, I watched hundreds of senior citizens wearing "Let Irv Serve" T-shirts behave worse than any children one would see in a nursery school. Mimicking Irv Slosberg's despicable behavior from the podium, they were insulting, rude, obscene and vicious to others in the audience as well as to Ted Deutch.

All I can say is "Thank you, Lord, for sparing us the blight of a representative like Irv Slosberg." Now I won't have to move out of District 30. There is so much shame and embarrassment with our government at the national level, I couldn't bear to have had to deal with it so close to home. It seems that the voters in District 30 were able to raise themselves above the "Irv Circus" and send the best qualified person, Ted Deutch, to Tallahassee. What hope for those of us who have been aching for a representative who understands values.

Posted by William Gibson on February 3, 2010 03:09 PM, February 3, 2010

National political forecasters expect Republicans to gain seats in Congress this year, but not from districts in South Florida. The Cook and Rothenberg political reports predict that Robert Wexler?s former House seat in Broward and Palm Beach counties will remain in Democratic hands. Ted Deutch won the Democratic primary on Tuesday. Ted Deutch Ed Lynch Deutch will run against Ed Lynch -- who won the Republican primary by a whisker over Joe Budd -- in a special election on April 13. Democratic voters outnumber Republicans in the district by two to one. Wexler, in the midst of his 7th term, left Congress this year to lead the Center for Middle East Peace.